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AKRON, Ohio -- After shooting his worst score ever at Firestone Country Club on Saturday, Tiger Woods is now in position to post his worst finish over 72 holes since his first tournament as a pro.

Woods struggled to a 5-over-par 75 during the third round of the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational on Saturday morning, epitomized by a semi-shank on the final hole that led to a bogey.

The world's No. 1 golfer -- perhaps only for another day -- dropped his club in disgust and had to scramble for the bogey that still gave him his highest score in 47 professional rounds at Firestone.

For the second straight day, Woods, 34, declined to talk to reporters, but offered: ""talk to the leaders.'' He did offer a few comments to the media official as he walked to the clubhouse.

"Well, I drove it terrible, hit my irons terrible, didn't putt well and it added up to a lot,'' Woods said.

Asked if there was anything positive heading into next week's PGA Championship, Woods said: "No, not right now.''

Woods, who has been ranked No. 1 in the Official World Golf Ranking for 269 consecutive weeks dating to the 2005 season, can be surpassed by Phil Mickelson on Sunday. A victory by Mickelson would clinch his first rise to No. 1, but he could still ascend with a top 4 finish as long as Woods does not finish better than 45th.

"Well, if Phil plays the way he's supposed to this weekend, then he'll be No. 1,'' Woods said.

When he finished his round before noon Saturday, Woods was tied for 78th among the 80 players still in the tournament. He had never been worse than a tie for fourth here through 54 holes at a tournament he has won seven times. Woods has never finished worse than tied for fifth at Firestone.

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the 4th and final major is this week at the masterpiece known as Whistling Straits...last time around, in 2004, I managed to get down there to watch some golf but I won't be able to this time thanks to work and coaching football..it's going to be a frickin hot week but i'm not so sure that we're going to see much wind so the players will have an advantage there...i'm going to say that we get a feel good story with Steve Stricker winning his first major in his home state

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And Mickelson..... his tee-shots are horrible, all over the place, sometimes in the fairway or rough of the hole parallel to the one he's on. They're as straight as Perez Hilton is.

Phil's game is just dreadful for this course and if he's spraying the ball off the tee, he better hope he ends up in the next fairway because the fescue rough is thick and pretty much a stroke penalty.

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I expected Watney to fall apart today and these last handful of holes are going to be exciting with five or six guys having a chance to win...I wanna see Kaymer win after he didn't follow through when I made him my pick for the British Open